Wilson's theorem for finite fields

DOI10.2298/PETF0617110HzbMATH Open1150.11042arXivmath/0602412MaRDI QIDQ5454418FDOQ5454418

Mehdi Hassani

Publication date: 28 March 2008

Published in: Publikacije Elektrotehnickog fakulteta - serija: matematika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this short note, we introduce an analogue of Wilson's theorem for all nonzero elements $a_1,a_2,\mathrm{...},a_{q-1}$ of a finite filed $mathbbF$ with $|mathbbF|=qgeq3$, as follows: ${\displaystyle }$ sum_{1leq i_1< i_2<...< i_kleq q-1}a_{i_1}a_{i_2}... a_{i_k}=leftlfloorfrac{k}{q-1} ight floor(-1)^qhspace{10mm}(k=1,2,..., q-1), ${\displaystyle }$ which the left hand side of above formula is the $k-$th elementary symmetric polynomial evaluated at $a_1,a_2,\mathrm{...},a_{q-1}$. Specially, letting $mathbbF=mathbb{Z}_p$ with $pgeq3$, reproves Wilson's theorem and yields some Wilson type identities. Finally, we obtain an analogue of Wolstenholme's theorem for nonzero elements of a finite filed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602412

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems (11A07) Structure theory for finite fields and commutative rings (number-theoretic aspects) (11T30)

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• Wilson's theorem in algebraic number fields
• Infinitude of Wilson primes for F_q[t]
• The Freiman-Ruzsa theorem over finite fields

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